Peony is a showy flower and it is the most fragant of all flowers. Its elegance and its beauty puts us in mind of a noble lady.To paint us selfs one of these flowers it requires a lot of practise, so here I leave you the steps to draw one with the chinese style. The chinese technique is done with unique strokes with a soaked brush. The most important is the rhythm and the manipulation of the brush, you hace to use the exact amount of paint and draw in the correct direction. THe brushes used for this technique are quite thick but with a very thin ending. You have to hold the brush in a vertical position with the thumb and the middle fingers.

Yesterday, 418 years ago, one of the most important women of art history was born. Artemisa Gentilischi was born in Rome, daughter of the famous painter Orazio Gentileschi. She was the oldest and only daughter in a family of four children. Orazio discovered her talent and dedicated all his efforts to her artistic education. With seventeen years she painted her first (1610) master piece: Susana and the Elders. After this she was raped by her fathers friend: Angostino Tassi. This changed her life, she not was only humiliated and hurt but also dishonored. She had to suport torture to confirm that she was not lying and public humiliation. Five month after this finished she married a man she hardly knew: Pierantonio Stiattegi, who only hang around with other women and was always debt. They moved to FLorence during eight years. There she developed her technique and learned to read and to write. She had good relation with the most if the respective artists, like Galileo and she went to the Accademia del Disegno. In this time as well she lost two of her sons but she had as well a daughter, whom she was very close to: Prudencia.

In 1620 she went back to Rome because she couldn‘t allow her husbands bedts anymore. Two years later he disappeared forever. She gave birth to her second daughter but the father remains unknown. She became a very rich women because of her paintings and gave her daughters the best education and after married them with noble families. Once more she worked with her father for a short time in London. She finally died in 1653. It wasn‘t until the XX century that her talent was recognized . A lot of her paintings were attributed to her father or other contemporary artists.

En la imagen podeis ver un aceite de rosa para perfumar el ambiente de Officina S. M. Novella de Rest. La Paloma, Ibiza. Las babuchas son de Marruecos. Los jabones son de una tiendecita en Formentera. La pulsera es de plata es de Turquía y el hilo de Finca Presencia.U can see in the picture an oil from rose to parfum the ambient from Officina S. M. Novella from Rest. La Paloma, Ibiza. The slippers are from Morroco. The soap I bought in a shop in Formentera. The silver bracelet if from Turkey and the string is from Finca Presencia.

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I'm a failed anthropologist turned into jeweler. I was raised in Formentera but with dutch and german origins. Since a child I have been playing around with threats and beads and over the years I realized thats its what truly passionates me. Im based in Ibiza the last five year, an island I try to keep on discovering over and over.